Frigid now, but November closes on milder weather notes

Bottoming out

Our Thanksgiving week temperature roller coaster bottoms out overnight. This looks like the coldest night for the rest of November in Minnesota. Lows dip into the single digits and teens Wednesday morning.

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NOAA

Mild Thanksgiving

We lose the wind Wednesday. Highs make it back into the 30s across most of Minnesota. A minor Clipper sails by with a shot of light snow for northern Minnesota Wednesday afternoon and evening.

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Thanksgiving Day looks nice. Light winds, some sunshine and highs in the 40s grace southern Minnesota with 30s up north. Black Friday looks mild but rainy. Here's NOAA's GFS model sequence of events this week.

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NOAA via tropical tidbits.

Here's the temperature curve for the Twin Cities. We make another run at 50 Friday.

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NOAA via Weather Bell

Thanksgiving travel across the U.S. looks good this year.

Mild again next week

The jet stream continues to suggest a mild end to November next week.

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NOAA

The latest GFS and European temperature guidance cranks out highs in the 40s, to possibly 50 degrees for the Twin Cities through next week. Here's the European model (ECMWF) forecast for Minneapolis through next week.

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Norwegian Met Institute

Still no big snow in sight. Yet.

Stay tuned.